How the Lap-Band® actually works, fills and refills

autumnbreeze · 10-16-2009, 10:58 PM

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Originally Posted by kiz

It's measured in volume, not weight.

4 oz = 1/2 measuring cup.

Thanks Kiz, ive lost 42 lbs since getting my band in Nov of 08, but seem to be at a standstill. Guess ill be getting another fill, i can eat more then a half cup of food.

sharon2u · 10-25-2009, 12:10 AM

I am 25 months post op now. I ahve not lost any ral weight in a year now. I lost my first 100 pounds and then nothing more since then. I exercise daily and watch my diet as I call it. I ahve a 10 cc band with only now just over 4 ccs in it. I had 5 1/4 but I had to get an unfil for I swelled up after my lst fill and had to have some removed. It seems everytime I get 5ccs or more I run into problems with vomiting and I tend to swell up after my fill but not right away, sometimes two weeks after the fact and then I run into trouble. I regurtate, reflux in my sleep and I acnnot figure out why this happens all the time. I ahve had numerious upper GI's done and at times it shows me being too tight and then at other times i am not. I just don't get it. I am thinking about asking my surgeon about why I am failing all the time and how about a new band or bypass surgery. can you band become un cooperative after awhile? and needs to be replaced wit6ha new one. Right not my band looks normal, no bulgings, or anything else.